Offline #4 2008-02-23 19:16:45 shining Pacman Developer Registered: 2006-05-10 Posts: 2,043 Re: Pacman "error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)" mcmillan wrote:Since all of those seem to belong to the same Why does that cause pacman to refuse to install the package (without using the force option)? Code: pacman -Sydd --asdeps java-runtime-common still fails, but with only about half the conflicting files. If you had installed a program manually without using pacman or a frontend, for example through make install, you have to remove it and all its files and reinstall properly using Source

Should I just delete the conflicting directories? (they do not have associated packages) arch-linux pacman share|improve this question asked Nov 2 '15 at 11:31 Lucas 64031130 3 why do you And for removing ghc you might need to run: sudo pacman -Rddns ghc to ignore the dependent packages. Why are some programming languages turing complete but lack some abilities of other languages? pacman does not honor proxy settings Make sure that the relevant environment variables ($http_proxy, $ftp_proxy etc.) are set up. useful source

Search for a package that contains a specific file Install pkgfile which uses a separate database with all files and their associated packages. pacman -Sc only leaves the versions of packages which are currently installed available, older versions would have to be retrieved through other means, such as the Archive. However I am in doubt, did I break something by doing this? 6 commentsshareall 6 commentssorted by: besttopnewcontroversialoldrandomq&alive (beta)[–]wolfram_lambda 4 points5 points6 points 9 months ago(0 children)No, they should have been reinstalled. Pacman Failed To Commit Transaction Invalid Or Corrupted Package pacman keeps the system up to date by synchronizing package lists with the master server.

Read pacman(8) or look in the default pacman.conf for information on what can be done here. Pacman List Installed Packages Why? Try our newsletter Sign up for our newsletter and get our top new questions delivered to your inbox (see an example). You are currently viewing LQ as a guest.

I guess I still don't understand what the problem is if the file already exists in the filesystem.

You can also try this pacman -Syuf share|improve this answer answered Oct 24 '12 at 14:16 Mike 15.3k32653 Well, I tried this and sadly no luck. It is highly recommended to only use this option when the Arch news instructs the user to do so. "Failed to commit transaction (invalid or corrupted package)" error Look for .part Error Failed To Commit Transaction Conflicting Files Glibc Lib Exists In Filesystem How to handle spending money for extended trip to Europe without credit card? Pacman Failed To Commit Transaction Unexpected Error share|improve this answer answered Nov 2 '15 at 11:43 Lucas 64031130 add a comment| Your Answer draft saved draft discarded Sign up or log in Sign up using Google Sign

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This will allow to run pacman. If another application changes those files in any way without updating the index accordingly there's no way for the package manager to know what to do with those files during an Why write an entire bash script in functions? the package could be in the multilib repository, but multilib is not enabled in your pacman.conf.

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